Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
by Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen, Kevin Connor
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Actor: Cosette Lee, Nancy Parsons, Paul Linke, Roberts Blossom, Rory CalhounDirector: Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen, Kevin Connor
Brand: MGM
Writer: Alan Ormsby
Producer: Austen Jewell
Writer: Robert Jaffe
Writer: Steven-Charles Jaffe
Writer: Tim Tuchrello
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Movie Review: It takes all kinds of critters... to make farmer Vincent fritters!.
Summary: 5 Stars
This 2 disk set is a MUST have for horror/slasher flick fans!. I came across these two films when they were refrenced it in Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks and I just had to check them out. Both films were terrific, Motel Hell being my favorite of the two. Motel Hell was quite a good black comedy/horror film that I enjoyed alot cause of how it was unique and original. The first film Deranged is about the story of Ed Gein but with a great darkly comic edge and it had loads of Gore. This includes some great set pieces involving Bear Traps, the killing of an obese Spiritualist and a twisted dinner date. Alan Orsmby's shock expose of the killer Ed Gein is a mixture of Black comedy & uncomfortable horror. Robert Blossoms gives an intense performance as Ezra Cobb a man haunted by the words of his dead & deeply religous Mother("the wages of sin are siphilis, gonerea & death!"). The story of mother loving EdGein shows it's influence in Psycho, Texas Chainsaw & many other movies, but this has to be the most affectionate. There are some real gruesome scenes involving: Brain Scooping, tummy drums & bear traps (special effects by a young Tom Savini); and like TCM it has a terrific and bizarre dinnner table scene. Like any Ormsby film there is a combination of great comic writing & gruesome horror accompanied by a top notch soundtrack (in this case echoes of Church organs). And watch out for that cinematography! the shot of Ezra bearing down on his victim is a real classic Horror moment.
Motel Hell is one of the many 'Texas Chain Saw' clones which hit the screens during the late '70's and early eighties, but unlike the many TCM rippoffs this one was probably the best. Central premise has farmer Colhquon planting his motel guests up to their necks, cutting out their vocal chords, slaughtering them and smoking their flesh which is then sold as barbecued meat. What we have is a delicious little parody of the horror genre, outrageous in places, ironic in others. Rory Calhoun plays the owner of a financially failing motel, but rather than being ruled by his mother, he is ruled by his mother's recipe for smoked meats. He and his sister run a hugely popular business selling jerky and sausage. It's famously delicious, and people come from miles around to sample Farmer Vincent's produce. While the household is locked in to an evangelical television programme, cannibalism and the morality of murdering and eating others is never an issue for them. The final chainsaw duel is worthy of note with the demented farmer (wearing a pigs head) and the local sheriff going at it. It's a brutally observed spoof horror ("Texas Chainsaw" played as farce), well shot, highly entertaining and very funny. There's satire, there's farce, there's irony, there's some visceral humour and there's a chainsaw duel! What more could you ask for? Funny, enjoyable production which contrasts nicely with the run-of-the-mill bloodletting of 80's cult horror. I highly recommend this great double feature from MGM, it's pretty good for Halloween.
Summary of Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
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